Wonka Mystery bags

So my son just had his 9th birthday and he wanted to do something different for his classroom treat this year.  I might have gone a little over board...


I wanted it to flow with what he was studying in class, they were reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  So Gracin and I came up with mystery bags.  Each bag would contain clues and the the student would have to guess what character they were from these clues.

This is what I came up with:

Since it was a birthday there had to be a sweet so I made chocolate chip cookies with Hersey bar pieces and labeled them Wonka Bar Cookies.  Every bag got one of these.

Charlie Bucket

Juice box wrapped with Happy Birthday wrapping paper, and a dime (I tapped it to a piece of paper so it would not get lost in the bag).  I brought Wonka candy for the students who received a Charlie bag to buy since that is what he does in the book with his dime.  

Augustus Gloop

Chocolate milk, and a lollipop wrapped in a tissue

Veruca Salt

A pink and purple tutu made from crepe paper around a juice box and a bag of peanuts stamped BAD. I know, my son must be in the last school on Earth that allows nuts, we are lucky :-) I wanted  fake walnuts to stamp BAD on but could not find any.

Violet Beauregarde

Berry juice (blueberrry if you can find it) and bubble gum

Mike Teavee

Juice box dressed up like an old TV with pixie stix antenna and a candy TV dinner

I used a SpongeBob crabby patty and runts.

Willy Wonka

Juice box made into a top hat and gobstoppers 

Oompa Loompa

A leave cover chocolate milk or juice box and cocoa beans (I used coffee beans)

I finished them with gold curling ribbon and a golden ticket.  It was a huge hit! 

Even with the time it took to make them, I would probably do it again over doing cupcakes.  They kids got to do an activity that related to what was going on in class and they enjoyed it.  I bought most of the stuff at the dollar store so the cost was around the same as buying cupcakes and drinks for the class but I think they will all, especially the teacher, will remember this for a long time.